Search Results for 'Teen'

Teen Texting Soars - Will Social Skills Suffer?

For America's teens, cell phones have become a vital social tool and texting the preferred mode of communication, according to a new poll by the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project. The report finds that [...]

Posted On : Apr, 20 2010 | Comments : 0

Teen drinking may up breast illness risk

Young women who drink alcohol increase their risk of non-cancerous breast disease, a U.S. researcher says. Dr. Graham Colditz of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and colleagues says the study shows the risk of benign [...]

Posted On : Apr, 17 2010 | Comments : 0

Study Evinces Video Games Have Little Effect on Sleep Patter...

A new study has suggested that playing a video game prior to bedtime has only a little effect on the sleep of older male teens. The findings of the study reveal that after playing an invigorating video game, adolescents required an avera [...]

Posted On : Apr, 16 2010 | Comments : 0

Teen Drinking Linked to Benign Breast Disease

-Teenage and adolescent girls who regularly consume alcohol may be at greater risk for developing benign breast disease in their 20s than their teetotaling counterparts, Harvard researchers report in the May issue of Pediatrics. Benign b [...]

Posted On : Apr, 14 2010 | Comments : 0

Parents Missing the Boat on Health Risks of Teens and Sleep

Modern parents are crazy. Clearly. We obsess about all the strangest things, fret over each phase of development, consult with others about the ongoing changes in behavior, and lie awake at night worried about our children's emotiona [...]

Posted On : Apr, 12 2010 | Comments : 0

Japanese teens set phone trends

On a sunny day in Harajuku, Tokyo's trendy shopping district, high-schooler Saya Kato is waiting for a friend to accompany her into La Foret, one of the city's citadels of fashion. Exquisitely attuned to the style of the moment, [...]

Posted On : Apr, 09 2010 | Comments : 0

Teen birth rate down 2%

Of the 4.2 million U.S. births in 2008, fewer of them were to teen mothers than in the prior two years.Births to women 40 and older were up. After increasing in 2006 and 2007, the teen birth rate fell 2 percent, according to the U.S. Cen [...]

Posted On : Apr, 08 2010 | Comments : 0

Exercise Helps Teens Overcome 'Obesity Gene'

Does carrying a gene tied to obesity doom a teenager to becoming obese? Not if that teen stays physically active, a new study shows. Among genes related to obesity, mutations in the so-called fat mass-and-obesity-associated gene (F [...]

Posted On : Apr, 06 2010 | Comments : 0

Middle aged women drinking more than in their teens

A joint survey by the British Liver Trust and Prima magazine has found that more than one in three women aged over 35 drinks more than they did in their teens. One in five women over 35 admits to regularly binge drinking, the survey foun [...]

Posted On : Apr, 03 2010 | Comments : 0

Dating-abuse lessons weighed for teens

Taylor Mack was 14 when she told friends and family she had met the love of her life. Calva Haskell, 15, was athletic, popular, handsome. It seemed like the ideal relationship for the Clermont teen -- until he stabbed her 20 times [...]

Posted On : Apr, 01 2010 | Comments : 0

Youth health group seeking teen members

The Knox County Youth Health Board is now accepting applications for the 2010-2011 school year. The Youth Health Board is a collaborative effort between the Knox County Health Department and Coordinated School Health that serves as a for [...]

Posted On : Mar, 30 2010 | Comments : 0

What parents should know about teen suicide

Suicide is the third-leading cause of death among 15- to 24-year-olds, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the phenomenon has lately been in the news. Cornell University is coping with a suicide cluster among [...]

Posted On : Mar, 29 2010 | Comments : 0

Teen style bloggers have the eye of the fashion world on the...

Jane Aldridge hoped to get a few readers when she started a style blog at 15. Today that sounds impossibly modest. Aldridge, now 18, gets about 70,000 hits a day at her blog Sea of Shoes. She's been featured in magazines like Vanity [...]

Posted On : Mar, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

Poor sleep linked to teen drug use

A new study by the researchers at University of California suggests that sleep deprived teens are more likely to use drugs at the center of social networks during their adolescence and thereby increase their vulnerability towards it. [...]